* Ronald G. Minnich [050414 21:10]:
> no, as Intel does not want it to happen. They are determined to ensure
> that no future Intel hardware can run linuxbios. They have stated as much
> to me directly. I am hoping this situation will change at some point,
> however, as some larger customers ar
Hi,
> As the title implies I went to the Wiki to work out how to download
> everything to bring myself into synch. It happens that the ones for
> the old CVS storage need to be revised. Sometime ago those crazy
> people at Source Forge rewrote the mechanisms behind the root for CVS,
> instead of t
* Huang-Jen Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050412 06:10]:
> Hi All,
> I tried to build a linuxbios for Arima Hdama, but the rom can't work
> I use a debug card , and it shows post code "fe"
> what dose it mean?
Did you attach a serial console? Does it say anything?
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* Ronald G. Minnich [050329 23:32]:
>
>
>
> just a note, please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] from here on out. I will
linuxbios@openbios.org
> give this transition a few more days. Please fix your address books!
Stefan
* Steve Milo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050320 20:39]:
> Pardon me but, am I to understand that XML is implemented in a firmware
> environment?!
for the purpose of automatically creating up to date documentation from
the code, yes indeed. There is no xml involved on the firmware level
itself.
Stefan
* Florian Zeitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050313 16:17]:
> I would like to contribute the following to the LinuxBIOS wiki in case
> it's useable:
> 1. I have written a rather small python script to convert the Options.lb
> to a XML file which is much more useable for the web in most cases.
> 2. I have
* Ronald G. Minnich [050314 17:59]:
>
>
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
>
> > Do we need to move ourselves over or will the existing list of subscribers
> > be
> > moved?
>
> gets moved automagically, (i.e. stefan) but you should be getting dup mail
> emails from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Tony S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050312 03:22]:
> I was looking at the wiki page and I thought it would look cool with
> the linuxbios logo with a transparent background so I edited it :)
> Hope you guys like it :)
Very nice, thanks! It definitely looks better.
Stefan
* Robin Randhawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050222 17:12]:
> Hi Stefan.
> Thanks for your prompt response.
> That would be nice.
>
> Will look forward to checking out your code. Do let me know when you
> would be able to hand it over,
Hi Robin,
Sorry for not coming back to you earlier. I attach the d
* Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050309 17:58]:
> > I always do something like
> > cvs update | grep ^? | cut -f2 -d\ |while read name
> > do
> > diff -uN /dev/null $name >> mypatch.newfiles.diff
> > done
> >
> > but it is not exactly elegant
>
> I can't seem to make that work. Do I
* Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050309 17:06]:
> I'm trying to create the patch for my 440bx stuff but I need some
> help. I have a bunch of new files that I added in the tree. So 'cvs
> diff' dosen't know about these files and dosen't show anything on the
> diffs.
>
> If I check out a new
* yhlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050309 04:27]:
> 1. LinuxBIOS need to pass the position pirq table to loader.s --- put
> that in CMOS or loader.s search that in RAM "PIR"
> 2. LinuxBIOS need to pass the entries in e820 at 1MB to loader.s, or
> put that in CMOS in LinuxBIOS stage. what standard nee
* Ronald G. Minnich [050308 22:08]:
> we need a 'controlled shutdown' of the cvs project so we can do a clean
> cut over to tla.
> Can we pick a day and time? midnight this saturday or some such? Do we all
> trust tla enough to go for it?
I've not seen any problems since OpenBIOS is using i
* YhLu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050308 22:32]:
> why does the Linux kernel use bitkeeper?
Back when Linus decided to switch, Arch did not have enough momentum
and it seemed the people around Tom Lord would always go for the concept
rather than for the user.
They were right back then, and today ther
* Eric W. Biederman [050308 20:20]:
> For more information look at:
> http://www.openbios.org/experience/gnuarch.html
> http://wiki.gnuarch.org/
Especially this part of the wiki is probably interesting:
http://wiki.gnuarch.org/moin.cgi/Learning_20Arch_20commands_20for_20CVS_20users
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* Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050308 20:13]:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]/freebios--devel--2.0
>
> what is the tla command for
>
> cvs -d:xxx login
> cvs -d:xxx co freebios2
You would do:
* once (preperation to use arch in general and on the openbios.org repos):
# make TLA know about you
tla my
* yhlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050308 18:56]:
> Can we put the server in US instead of EU?
>
> YH
The machine is hanging off the second hop from the Frankfurt backbone
over to the US, 7 hops from tyan.com... This should be a _lot_ faster
than sourceforge.net
Have you had throughput/latency problems
* Eric W. Biederman [050308 10:37]:
> The next piece to investigate is how we plan on publishing and
> committing changes. The bread and butter of a version control
> system. Ron are you far enough along in playing with arch
> that you are ready for that piece of the conversation?
http://www.o
* Dmitriy Budko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050307 22:28]:
> Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?
> If you want it please describe why do you want it.
This sounds very interesting. Having a possibility to test
LinuxBIOS+payload in vmware would allow easy and comfortable
payload dev
* Ronald G. Minnich [050304 17:39]:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> > Ron does this sound like something you would be willing to look at?
>
> by all means!
The repository is there now.
Note: The caches have not been built on the server, so viewarch is
relly slow. This w
* Eric W. Biederman [050304 06:02]:
> For the web pages I don't care. But for the sources I SVN does not solve
> one of our major problems: Multiple repositories.
With the Wiki the web page issue has solved.
> So arch aka tla appears to be the sane way to go. It can act as
> a shared reposi
* ramesh bios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050304 05:12]:
> Ok, so I tried this specific sequence and it failed.
>
> making region read/write
> done making region read/write
> Verifing priq routing tables copy at 0xf...failed,
> f=b0 while 87c0=24
>
> Could it be that f is mapped to the flash
* Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050303 23:10]:
>
> Server down?
>
> Server error!
> The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your
> request. Either the server is overloaded or there was an error in a CGI
> script.
>
> If you think this is a server error, please contac
Hi,
for all those of you using an RSS news reader (like KNewsTicker), you
can get informed about changes of the LinuxBIOS wiki with the following
rss feeds:
Recently changed pages:
http://wiki.linuxbios.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss
New pages:
http://wiki.linuxbios.org/index
* Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050302 17:04]:
> * Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050302 17:00]:
> > I've been adding selected info from my V1 FAQ up into the wiki. The
> > following is some info I compiled up on V1 start up.
> >
> > If som
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050302 19:40]:
>
> I'm using FILO with nVidia reference board with a CK804. I've got
> LinuxBIOS to load FILO and FILO sees the IDE controller but not the
> drive. I thought FILO was device independent, but could the IDE
> controllers on the CK804 require
* Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050302 17:00]:
> I've been adding selected info from my V1 FAQ up into the wiki. The
> following is some info I compiled up on V1 start up.
>
> If someone(s) would update this for V2 and post it t the wiki I think
> it would be very useful.
I have an old writ
* Justin C. Darby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050302 16:34]:
> If someone can point me in the right direction (in the source, I'd
> guess) to find all of the configuration options without descriptions I
> can setup a page dedicated to explaining them one at a time.
freebios2/src/config/Options.lb
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* Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050302 16:28]:
> A tehnical glossary would be nice but one thing we _really_ need is a
> listing of all config options and what they do. This was (and still
> is) one of the largest hurdles for me. And its one of the things that
> Google won't find much on.
* Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050302 13:31]:
> Ok, it's just that I have an intel m/b (i875-based) and from what I've
> gathered there's no support for any newer intel chips than the 440xX, so a
> hack like that would perhaps enable me to experiment (me play to ;-). Of
> course I need to
* Ramesh Chhaba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050302 12:19]:
> I was just trying to make a linuxBIOS for epic.
> at last step it gives error .
>
> ././buildrom linuxbios.strip linuxbios.rom
> ../../../../../lnxieepro100.ebi 0x1 0x2
> ../../../../../lnxieepro100.ebi: No such file or directory
>
> C
* Martin Ley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050302 11:30]:
> The next thing is, how do I get the ROM image to the flash? The flash is
> a SST39SF020A. The best solution would be that I use a second flash to
> play with linuxbios, but I can't find a distributor in germany willing
> to sell small quantities.
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050302 06:03]:
> I have written back asking for permission to disclose the contents
> without NDA. I have pointed out the benefits they are going to derive.
> Let's see how it goes.
> I have a feeling that they may allow disclosure without NDA.
Many vendo
* ramesh bios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050301 12:22]:
> Would I be able to test if Linux 2.6.10 is able to
> parse the normal BIOS' PIRQ table by booting linux
> with acpi=off? If it does work at that point, then I
> could assume that the area to be fixed would be the
> PIRQ table generation in LinuxBI
* ramesh bios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050301 08:19]:
> That's odd. My understanding might be lacking.
>
> I think the PIRQ table parser in 2.6.10 seems to work
> because it works when I use the normal BIOS.
Sure normal BIOS does not provide ACPI instead? In such case, PIRQ stays
mostly untouched.
* Ronald G. Minnich [050228 17:08]:
>
> if you see errors let me know (I did not write this but they will take
> input). I know the comment about linuxbios being stripped-down linux is
> not quite right; anything else?
The number of supported boards is really small and includes LinuxBIOS v1
only
* corentin hache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050224 15:33]:
> Hello,
>
> I am newbie in LinuxBios, and I Would like to know where I can find
> documentation about the python config file (epia.config in my case).
>
> Is there a file or a website where I can find informations about all
> possibles op
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050223 12:26]:
> Argh!!. That would take forever if at all.Isnt there another way?
> Like simulator or gdb or reading up stuff from the kernel since that
> already works with the motherboard.
As a first step, yes. But you want dynamic detection of dram and
* Gin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050222 12:47]:
> >If it's just about reading a file from usb and writing it to flash, you
> >might want to have a look at filo. It should be easy to integrate the
> >functionality of flash_rom into it, so you don't need a full blown
> linux
> >system in flash.
>
> That
* Robin Randhawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050222 16:40]:
> After a bit of digging around, I've narrowed down my choice of
> bootloaders to telios' ALIOS and Linuxbios from you good people. Alios
> seems to support only the ELAN SC400 and I am not sure of the existing
> Linuxbios support for the ELAN SC
* Gin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050222 10:07]:
> Don't know if anyone has a good tool package in mind that I can use to
> develop an Embedded Linux. We want a linux that is just enough to run
> the flash_rom program+usb support and we hope it would be small enough
> so we can fit it into a Bios chip. It
* Greg Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050214 16:02]:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> I did it this way because the JTAG debugger understands elf headers, so
> can automatically work out where to program the image in rom. I guess
> it should really be called linuxbios.elf. Feel free to change things if
> you feel
* Eric W. Biederman [050214 00:13]:
> Generally I would ask if you are seeing the payload at the top
> of the romimage. But that is one of the ppc targets isn't it?
For experimenting i build with a payload of /dev/null (as generated by
abuild.sh). The binary is around 200k instead of an expecte
Hi,
how should the totalimpact briq target work? When I build it, I get an
elf image as the resulting linuxbios.rom. Is this intended?
Stefan
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* Ronald G. Minnich [050212 00:27]:
> > May I recommend having a wiki?
>
> I'll see what stefan thinks.
A rather thought about closing dowd the existing linuxbioswiki
http://openbios.org/linuxbioswiki since it was never used.
Maybe people did not feel well with "moinmoin wiki" but would rather
* Paul Millar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050211 23:39]:
> A random extra bit of info, I just found this page:
> http://www.openbios.org/development/devbios.html
>
> I haven't tried it yet, but if it works, it would make flashing new
> images a lot easier. A link from your web-page might be a good id
* Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050210 19:58]:
> Try to load Linux(0x%x) at dev 0x%x
> LinuxBIOS
> LinuxBIOS
> Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx)
> Jump to Linux(0x%lx, 0x%lx)
> Found file system used by Linux.(File System ID = 0x%x)
> LinuxBIOS
> Try to load Linux(0x%x) at dev 0x%x
[..]
>From thos
* Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050208 22:32]:
> On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 13:53, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > No, do I need to? What is the exact benefit except only having to
> > mention one apic_cluster? If this is the problem we will have to change
> > it in most ports I
* YhLu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050209 01:48]:
> Stefan,
>
> What's the onboard VGA? are your talking about onboard one?
>
> YH
Yes, it is an onboard rage xl. Pretty much the same as on all opteron
boards i guess.
It looks like x86emu can't see the rom itself? I manually checked the
image and it lo
* Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050208 21:22]:
> YhLu reversed the order of apic_cluster and northbridge in mainboard
> config file. Did you change your config file too?
No, do I need to? What is the exact benefit except only having to
mention one apic_cluster? If this is the problem we will have
* Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050208 19:24]:
> There is no change to the emulator since last Friday. I tested the
> (then) current CVS tree on that day. Did the emulator ever work
> on your platform?
Last time I tried before was 2005-01-25. It worked fine then.
Stefan
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Hi,
with the latest code I don't seem to get VGA initialized anymore
on the island/aruma (builtin option rom for onboard card).
rom address for PCI: 04:04.0 = fff8
int1a vector at 0
int1a vector at 0
[...]
int42 vector at ff065
int6d vector at c16a3
int10 vector at c16a3
int6d vector at c16a
* Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050131 17:20]:
> > something I have been wondering. Suppose someone starts working on that
> > IDE driver to fix it for once in bochs bios. Won't we find out that
> > getting it work right is chip-set specific thing?
> >
> > curently bochs bios is based on inte
* G.Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050131 14:13]:
> At Stefan's suggestion, I have downloaded the latest V2 snapshot. I
> expected a Makefile, configure or README in the base directory which told
> me where to start and how to progress. I have found some details
> regarding a 2.4.0 kernel, but tha
* Dave Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050121 20:36]:
> - The fallback image differs from the normal image in the layout
> it uses for accessing the CMOS parameters. In other words it
> uses a different cmos.layout file.
My image only uses cmos for normal booting. For fallback booti
Hi,
just to give some final feedback on this one. Using cmos_util worked
fine whereas lxbios seemed to work "sometimes" but I did not track the
exact issues down.
Thanks for the hints.
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* Ronald G. Minnich [050127 21:10]:
>
>
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Digital Infra, Inc. wrote:
>
> > You can say you never use windows any more once you start to use LinuxBIOS?
>
> Yes, I can. I will never use windows again. I have no use for it.
Otherwise VMware or Qemu would be the solution of c
* Adam Talbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050127 06:52]:
> -Ron (Linuxbios team)
> Humm, had one of my strange ideas. Would it be possible to use the
> linuxbios kernel as the system kernel?? So instead of calling a new kernel
> through FILO or booting from etherboot, could I just have Linux bios call
>
* Greg Lindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050126 22:48]:
> You mean you tested for a short time and didn't see the AMD 8131 bug,
> and so you are going to run production at the higher speed?
>
> This is not so smart. The bug in the 8131 HT core is rare, but big
> clusters will see it fairly frequently.
* Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050126 18:40]:
> What if we created a shadow.c file that was in the northbridge
> directory with a simple API type setup that enabled and disabled the
> various shadow ranges.
What about going the LinuxBIOS table way, providing an array of writes
typedef struc
* YhLu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050126 18:50]:
> For 2)
> That bit only control x4 DIMM, So please don't do that on x8 or x16. All the
> Normal BIOS only compare that to 4 only, and AMD document only said x4
> Only.
At least one commercial bios vendor does this for x8 as well, and it is
definitely n
* Digital Infra, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050126 15:20]:
>
> And it boots Windows XP?
AFAIK only Win2k, but it could be advanced.
The current URL is
http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/sebos.html
The code is in LinuxBIOS v1 CVS
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* Digital Infra, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050126 13:51]:
>
> Hello.
>
> As my understanding, current LinuxBIOS can not boot Windows and
> the reason for it is that it depends on 16bit bios feature much.
> So far is right? If right, how about this way. Have you noticed already?
>
> First, LinuxB
Hi,
I would like to check the applied patch into LinuxBIOS CVS if nobody
happens to disagree loudly:
1) hypertransport clocking
This patch allows to disable the speed cuts during hypertransport
setup using cmos variables "amdk8_1GHz" and "amd8131_800MHz".
I've tried them on hardware wh
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050124 17:38]:
> I'm trying to port LinuxBIOS to a Opteron board with a CK804.
IIRC Yinghai Lu did some CK804 work as well.
http://www.clustermatic.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2004-August/008797.html
> In auto.c I notice that most boards call ht_setup_chain(
* Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050124 04:44]:
> what's other SPD about your DIMM? Brand & model
>
> That bit means x4 DIMM.
>
> YH
I don't have the list at hand, but the only difference in SPD-ROM that
is actually read by LinuxBIOS is the "Primary SDRAM Width" byte.
As far as I see it, t
Hi,
The following function in freebios2/src/northbridge/amd/amdk8/raminit.c
is obviously wrong.
static int update_dimm_x4(const struct mem_controller *ctrl, const
struct mem_param *param, int i)
{
uint32_t dcl;
int value;
int dimm;
value = spd_read_byte(ctrl->chann
* Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050121 21:34]:
> What's the functional purpose of auto.c? Obvously to turn on the ram
> but what else?
mostly ram init control. It is the main function that has to run before
LinuxBIOS can be copied to ram. On AMD K8 this means you have to set up
hypertranspor
Hi,
What's the most comfortable way to switch between normal and fallback
images in LinuxBIOS on AMD64. I was using lxbios from
http://www.llnl.gov/linux/lxbios/lxbios.html
But when changing the parameters to Normal, the next boot LinuxBIOS
still says "Invalid CMOS LB checksum" and it sets "boo
* Ronald G. Minnich [050118 20:05]:
> > I'd like to hear more about what Stefan had in mind for the 'small set of C
> > functions'. Maybe the simplest way would be to pass the device tree itself
> > to
> > the payload? I guess it wouldn't solve the binary/ascii problem, but it
> > would
> > sure
* Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050120 17:19]:
> > What about fs_stream?
>
> What's fs_stream?
If you set CONFIG_FS_STREAM 1 you can load a payload from an IDE disk
with a filesystem on it. It's basically filo directly integrated.
Stefan
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* Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050120 19:27]:
> Does IRQ_SLOT_COUNT have to match how many actual slots are on the MB
> or just the number of pci devices in total?
Basically one for each device and one for bus1. Otherwise Linux won't
see the APIC of the 8111.
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* Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050120 18:05]:
> > Currently, it's always enabled, but if you build a fallback-only payload,
> > then 'normal' won't get run. This is hokey, I know.
>
> So if I just remove all the normal stuff? What about all the reset16
> and entry16 stuff? Looks to me lik
* Ronald G. Minnich [050120 16:41]:
> > Why are all the payloads out of tree? Be nice if there was a payloads
> > directory with some known good payloads.
>
> well, I am supposed to put my filo in there RSN, should I do that? My
> mistake ...
What about fs_stream?
> I would still prefer to g
*Sigh*
When Linux has IOAPICs and Local Apics configured via an ACPI MADT
it will not read the mptable at all. It will reference mptable
information though and not find any bus.
Only way out seems to add a DSDT als well. Or whatever table it wants
for that.
It is really broken.
Stefan
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* YhLu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050119 02:35]:
> i wonder what the different between
> offs = ( pci_read_config16(dev, pos + PCI_CAP_FLAGS) & (1<<10)) ?
> PCI_HT_SLAVE1_OFFS : PCI_HT_SLAVE0_OFFS;
>
> and
>
> offs = ( (pci_read_config16(dev, pos + PCI_CAP_FLAGS) >> 10) & 1) ?
> PCI_HT_SLAVE1_OFFS :
* Eric W. Biederman [050118 20:29]:
> In addition it is quite possible some of those cards still follow the original
> option rom specification (pre pci enhancements) which simply requires
> the 0x55aa signature the length byte and the jump to the entry point.
Also, the 0x55aa sequence has to be
* YhLu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050118 19:34]:
> Can I use that to connect Exchange Server in IMAP?
Yes, it works fine.
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* Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050118 17:40]:
> > > It is used because it is in FC2. I believe it is in recent SuSe too.
> > > I think it is requred for x86_64.
> >
> > I changed it to be configurable in the Makefile. Just enter your libpci
> > version there and it will compile. Unfortunate
* Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050118 17:14]:
> Some of them don't have correct 0x55aa signature. All of them have
> wrong Class code.
>
Then it is not a pci option rom as described by the standard. Do they
have the other pci option rom structs?
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* Greg Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050118 15:56]:
> The only issue really is what format to use for serialization. I'm
> leaning towards s-expressions for use with openbios. However, it's
> conceivable that different serialzation methods could be provided for
> different payloads, though probabl
Hi,
as far as I see CPU-CPU HT links are configured with 800MHz at max.
C0 and newer K8 CPUs should be able to do 1000. Is there any reason not
to enable this in such case?
Also, if there happened to be 8131 which do 800MHz on the link,
can we make this configurable via cmos or is Config.lb the w
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050118 02:06]:
> > What was the a reason you had to move to the alpha version for the
> > userspace program in V2? Seems like a lot of trouble for not much
> > real gain.
> >
>
> It is used because it is in FC2. I believe it is in recent SuSe too.
> I thin
* Eric W. Biederman [050118 12:51]:
> I agree that there is an issue particularly with respect to
> interrupts. A lot of this has waited until we have the time to
> do this properly.
I agree. However I also think we are coming close to the point were
the existing infrastructure is fine enough
* Ronald G. Minnich [050118 03:31]:
> no argument that we have to create those tables, I just don't want the
> baseline format to be binary, if at all possible. It's very non-portable
> to non-x86 systems.
The baseline really is our internal device tree representation.
Everything else should be
* Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050115 22:07]:
> enum {
> MPTABLE_CPUS,
> [..]
> ACPI_COMPLETE_TABLES,
> } table_t;
>
> and dev::write_tables() would look similar to this:
>
> static void amd8111_write_tables(device_t dev, table_t
* Ronald G. Minnich [050117 21:48]:
> It all sounds good except I would really like to try generating
> s-expressions as well. I am convinced that the binary table thing is going
> to cause us future trouble, and the reason I am so convinced is that every
> binary table I've ever seen had troub
* Andreas Bach Aaen (AH/TED) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050117 16:03]:
> Hi,
>
> can I from the lspci output see where the superio chips is connected?
Not really. you got to know that it usually hangs off the LPC bridge.
> My lspci -tv says:
> lspci -tv
> +-1f.0 Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/IC
* Andreas Bach Aaen (AH/TED) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050117 15:56]:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking at a board chipsetwise a lot like the Tyan2735. When I compile
> tyan2735 I get the following problem from a few days old CVS shapshot:
> ---
> cp linuxbios_ram.nrv2b linuxbios_ram.rom
> echo "INCL
Hi,
Porting LinuxBIOS to new motherboards has become easier and easier over
the last period of time. There's almost no need for assembler coding
anymore, Hypertransport featured systems do a completely automatical
setup of their non coherent devices. On K8 systems even the coherent
devices get ini
* Eric W. Biederman [041021 12:52]:
> > Hello Eric,
> >
> >I searched the linux kernel mail archive and found your
> > patch for x86 boot linuxbios support, but I didn't find the
> > linuxbios table parse code in linux-2.6.8.1, does linux kernel
> > still parse the linuxbios table now?
>
> N
* Adam Talbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050113 20:39]:
> -Stefan
> Can i set my baud rate in the config, or do i need to go change it in the
> code?
You should be able to set it in the config
## Select the serial console baud rate
default TTYS0_BAUD=115200
#default TTYS0_BAUD=57600
#default TTYS0_BAUD
* Adam Talbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050113 17:32]:
> -Ron
> Sorry about that, have not even looked at vga; yes, screen=console.
> As far as the output i see in minicom...
> ".. ... .. .. TÜ .¿.Ü.ü. . .. . .. ... Tü. .. .. . . ...û. . . ..
> .. .. ."
> Hope that means something to you.
Hav
* Bari Ari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050112 19:43]:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
>
> >I think morse code would actually tie in better with the post code
> >infrastructure than general console traffic. That would keep
> >the volume of data low enough so as to be meaningful. Even
> >if you did not kno
* Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050107 16:26]:
> For scsi, do we need the 'runtime' part as well as the 'init' part ?
> The emulator has support to install an int handler (the real thing
> from the BIOS image, not our C code emulation) and call the int
> handler.
This is exactly what we need.
>
* Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050107 15:40]:
> Definitely! Pragmatic decisions are not always those with the nicest
> design, but in this case it will no doubt help LinuxBIOS gain a lot of
> momentum against the other alternatives (ie. http://www.tianocore.org/)
Th
* Ronald G. Minnich [050107 05:54]:
> > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote:
> > > Any comments ?
> >
> > This is wonderful, as it may solve the SCSI problem too.
>
> I agree with eric that in general going to expansion roms as an option is
> undesirable, but ... sometimes you have no choice. I
* Eric W. Biederman [050106 21:01]:
> "Ronald G. Minnich" writes:
>
> > bitkeeper anyone? I'm using it for a lot of projects and going back to
> > sourceforge all the time is getting annoying.
>
> If we made regular releases bitkeeper might be an option.
> As it is I have extreme problems with
* Eric W. Biederman [050106 04:10]:
> > It seems it's also impossible to check out the old files with
> > cvs co -D "2003-07-30 20:00" freebios2
>
> Very weird. I would run cvs log to see if you can spot the proper revisions
> and see if you can check out the individual files. I know I hav
* Ronald G. Minnich [050104 14:56]:
>
>
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
>
> > Am I supposed to delete it, or am I supposed to look up what it means
> > and implement it in mptable.c so LinuxBIOS can use it?
>
> oh boy. It's been a year at leas
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